Effect of Health Promotion Program Based on Application of Ecological Model on Eating Behavior and Nutritional Status among Overweight Primary School Students
รวิวรรณ ปานบุตร
Keywords:
The Health Promotion Program, Ecological Model, , Eating Behaviors, Primary School Students, OvernutritionAbstract
School-aged children overnutrition is becoming a crucial public health problem. This quasi-experimental research, two groups pretest-posttest design was to study the effect of The Health Promotion Program Based on Application of Ecological Model on eating behaviors and nutritional status among overweight primary school students. A total of 60 overweight primary school students were obtained, divided into 30 experimental groups and 30 control groups. The experimental group was received The Health Promotion Program Based on Application of Ecological Model by 12 weeks while the control group received regular nursing care. Eating behaviors questionnaire, research collecting data has a validity by index of item-objective congruence (IOC) was 0.87 and the reliability by Cronbach’s coefficient was 0.74. Data was analyzed by descriptive statistics, frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, paired t-test, independent t-test and Chi-square test.
The results founded that the mean score of eating behaviors after received intervention of experimental group were significantly higher than the before received intervention and higher than the control group (p< .05). The mean score of nutritional status after received intervention of experimental group were significantly better than before received intervention and significantly better than the control group (p< .05).
The results that can be applied to groups of pre-school or school-age children who have overnutrition. Because of each person's eating habits and nutritional status are different. The practice should begin among students with overnutrition first. If the results were success, it will be applied to all students.
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